ANTIQUE GAMING TABLE, MAHOGANY OVAL PEMBROKE TABLE, WRITING AND WORK TABLE, ANTIQUE SERVING TABLE, REGENCY STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLES
A LARGE GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR GAMING TABLE
with a baize-lined interior with six square tapering legs,
4ft. 5in. wide (135cm.) circa 1780.
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR MAHOGANY CARD TABLES, the tops crossbanded in satinwood and each with a [...]

Tripod Table of Mid-Eighteenth Century - A Georgian Mahogany Dumb Waiter - A Papier-Mache Tea Table - Early Nineteenth Century Tripod Table
The tripod table is not strictly speaking derived from the candle stand in our illustration above, but it is possible to trace the influences derived from it. This stand, c.1670, is of walnut, [...]

A Mahogany Gate-Leg Drop-Flap Table - A Mahogany Dining Table - A Regency Period Rosewood Circular Table - A Mahogany Late Victorian Dining Table
A mahogany gate-leg drop-flap table of c.1770. The ‘Chippendale’influence has produced the square section legs chamfered down the back edge. The wood is still a rather heavy Cuban mahogany with good figure, [...]

Oak Table of Refectory Type - Late Seventeenth Century Oak Gate-Leg Table - George I Period Mahogany Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Dining Table
An early oak table of refectory type, c.1600. The large turned legs are connected almost at floor level with heavy stretchers. The main under frame is tenoned into the square tops of the legs [...]

Mahogany Pembroke Table - Mahogany Writing Table - Regency Period Dining Table - Mahogany Library Table
A Thomas Sheraton mahogany Pembroke table, the top cross banded with herringbone bands of kingwood, with a rising ‘Harlequin’ section with a fall-front inlaid with ribboned festoons of flowers in scorched and green fruitwood, in the manner of Pierre Langlois, [...]

TABLES  dining, Georgian extending
The limitations of the gateleg table are obvious; its size cannot be above a certain dimension and the legs get in the way of the diner. The George III D-end table resolved the first problem, although not always the second.
The concept of the D-end table is ingenious enough. The two D-ends, each [...]

TABLES - dining, mahogany gateleg, Chippendale and after
When one considers the revolution in design of chairs associated with the name of Chippendale, it is amazing that he never mentioned dining tables in his trade catalogues. His firm made gatelegs with D-ends among other complicated tables discussed in the next section but, perhaps justifiably, his name [...]

TABLES  dining, mahogany gateleg, shaped foot, 1735-1760
Just as the stretchers disappeared from chairs in the early part of the eighteenth century, so mahogany dining tables rid themselves of stretchers at much the same time. Perhaps it was the strength of mahogany or simply the desire to refine. Whatever the reason, some superb tables emerged. Good [...]

TABLES  dining, refectory
Oak tables of the seventeenth century, with their rectangular boarded tops, are now generically referred to by their Victorian title of refectory tables. They evolved from trestle-supported boards, and developed into more sophisticated bulbous-legged tables and draw tables (tables with second leaves under, which pulled out to extend the table) in the sixteenth [...]